gratitudes, facts don't matter, what is truth, purple highlights, disintegration of trump narrative
yesterday i was grateful for coffee with margaret and the feminine camaraderie of karen, gina and johanna at beauty ritual...
today i am looking forward to progress at the cemetery...
thoughts swimming around in my brain this morning... yesterday, while i was with the women at beauty ritual a moment came when i felt compelled to quote kelly anne conway...
facts don't matter, what people believe matters
i think of this as one of the most significant statements made by anyone since the start of the present century... it is a fundamental truth... something more than a fact, which it disparagesā¦ a truth... the profound idea that facts don't equal truth... they can be a scaffolding for truth, but they are not truth itself... my generation and the generations closely following me all grew up with the enlightenment understanding of a world conceptualized through scientifically established facts... it occurs to me that we are in a moment of the death of the scientific facts god... we can declare again in this moment that god is deadā¦ disintegrating in the solar winds of the idea that belief trumps fact and facts don't equal truth... we have too much experience with facts being handmaids to the support of belief... so we confirm that facts, are not the same as truth...
there is an authenticity movement going on... instead of science based humanism, there is an authenticity based humanism trying to emerge... what is authenticā¦ recovers its dominion over what is factualā¦
what is truth?ā¦ a google ai summary...
Truth is the quality of being genuine and accurate, aligning with reality and facts, as opposed to falsehood or opinion. The most common philosophical definition is the correspondence theory, which states that a belief or statement is true if it corresponds to an independent reality. This is distinct from subjective beliefs, and the pursuit of objective truth is central to fields like science, history, and law.
Key aspects of truth
- Correspondence to reality: A statement is true if it reflects what is actually the case. For example, the statement "the sky is blue" is true because it aligns with reality.Ā
- Objectivity: Truth is often considered objective, meaning it exists independently of what individuals believe or feel. What is true for one person is true for all, regardless of personal perspective.Ā
- Factual basis: It is grounded in verified facts, evidence, and logical reasoning. This is in contrast to guesses or opinions.Ā
- Distinction from "personal truth": While people may have their own "truth" based on their experiences, this is different from objective truth. Personal beliefs can influence how someone perceives reality, but they do not change the reality itself.
Philosophical perspectives
- Correspondence theory: This is the most widely accepted view, championed by philosophers like Aristotle. It states that a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to a fact.Ā
- Coherence theory: This view suggests that a statement is true if it is consistent and logically coherent with a larger system of beliefs.Ā
- Pragmatic theory: This theory defines a true belief as one that is useful or has practical consequences in the long run.
my truthā¦
i got purple highlights in my hair yesterday... for the holidays... i love getting my hair done... i love the salon i go to... it is an emersion in femininityā¦ we talk fashion, clothes and makeup... i start thinking about what i will wear the week before because i love displaying my fashion edits and they enjoy seeing them...
i prefer to live the truth of my feminine-masculine complexityā¦ that i was male at birth is factā¦ this fact does not define the truth of meā¦ i escape from a narrow fact of me to a much broader truth of meā¦ my true self... the self that is most fully happy in the world, wears dresses and skirts and lipstick and necklaces and earrings and, and, and...
when i am not profoundly upset with the trump administration... when i take the 50,000 foot view, i wonder if we are witnessing the clearing out of waring selective facts to return to a whole truth posture... we became mired in the left brain god of āobjective factsā, which divorced us from truthā¦
this morning, heather cox richardson wrote about the ways that the trump administration's ability to spin the reality they want to see is weakening as it fails to add up to an acceptable truth for more and more people...
Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justicesā questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back āin excess of $2 Trillion Dollarsā if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that āwould be a National Security catastrophe.ā He blamed āAnarchists and Thugsā for putting the U.S. into a āterrible situationā by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillionāthe Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.
On Tuesday, Isabela Dias of Mother Jones reported on the administrationās targeting of individuals who, until now, were protected under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. President Barack Obama established DACA for those brought to the U.S. as children until Congress could pass legislation to give those āDreamersā a path to legal residence. Thanks to the program, Dreamers by the hundreds of thousands gave the U.S. government their personal information in exchange for a promise they would not be deported. But Congress never acted, and now, in its quest to reach 3,000 deportations a day, the administration is targeting the DACA recipients, whose adherence to the rules the government established makes them easy to find and target.
As immigration advocate Aaron Reichlin-Melnick wrote: āWe paid El Salvador to torture, abuse, and rape completely innocent Venezuelans so that [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio, [White House deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller, and Donald Trump could claim they were tough on immigrants.ā